The Philosophy of Philosophy

Chris had an objection to Williamson brought up last class. It goes something like this: Williamson argues: 1) Every metaphysically modal st...

Comments on Putman’s Thought Experiment: Earth and Twin-Earth The thought experiment with water and twater tries to convince that our belief...

Williamson wants to argue that (a) counterfactuals are intimately tied up with modality, (b)counterfactual thought plays a pivotal role in o...

One objection Williamson considers to his view is that not all counterpossibles are vacuously true. If this is right, then the principle NEC...

Something struck me as strange in the Kim rehash of Putnam and Burge’s thought experiments. In describing the earth-born astronaut Jones’ us...

This post is on the readings we got from the Philosophy of Mind artsy cut-and-paste handout with the thought experiment examples from Putna...

Williamson’s argument for rejecting UAt and UDAt: (1) Every vixen is a vixen. UAt: Necessarily, whoever grasps the thought every vixen is a ...